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March 21, 2006
Why I've Been Such a Bad Blogger
Well, we had a very nice spring break week in New York. The short version is that Lily was great, we saw lots of friends and family who we miss very much, Nana bought Lily lots of cute new clothes, Adam and I both ate too much junk food, and here we are back in Indiana on the second day of spring. Suffice to say that Ohio still sucks, rest stop bathrooms are twice as filthy-looking when you have to change a diaper there, and Lily really enjoys Mariachi music.
As of this week, Lily has two or three new teeth coming in and a miserable cough/cold, and refuses to eat anything solid, so that put a screeching halt to any sort of productive week. She has figured out how to crawl, and now this is her idea of a good time while I'm trying to talk on the phone:
But, the good news is, we are officially homeowners. We got all the haggling done, and as of May 30 will take posession of a nice, though sorely neglected, three bedroom home.
Who knows, we may be in over our heads or out of our minds, but here we are. Living the American Dream and all. I'm all excited about bathroom renovations and picking out curtains, but there's a lot of less glamourous work that needs to go on pretty immediately as well. Like mold removal and gutter cleaning. Ick. But one very happy thing is that the realtor and I were over there yesterday, and pulled up the edge of the carpet under floor grates in three different rooms, to find that there is indeed beautiful oak flooring under all the carpet except in the master bedroom. It's going to be a pain in the patootie to rip up all that carpet, and I'm guessing the floors probably need to be refinished, but how exciting!!
I'll be sure to keep you all apprised of the various trials and tribulations of homeownership.
Posted by mwashburn at March 21, 2006 05:53 PMPosted to homeownership
Comments
Congrats!!!
(And maybe Lily was unhappy with the organizational scheme and was trying to help you out :) )
Posted by: Heidi at March 21, 2006 06:46 PM
Alphabetically by artist, then chronologically by release date. How can anyone be unhappy with that scheme?
Also, anyone have a ladder, a drill with cement bits, a power washer, a nailgun, and a table saw that I could borrow?
Posted by: adam at March 21, 2006 07:31 PM
What's the nail gun for??
Posted by: flygrrl at March 21, 2006 07:58 PM
Maybe she likes her music organized by genre.
Posted by: Heidi at March 21, 2006 10:26 PM
Congratulations!
Kiddo used to love to drag my cds all over the floor.
Maybe she's trying to sell you on a whole new organizational paradigm. If the 80-20 rule applies, then the great majority of your music "searches" will draw from a much smaller set of CDs than your total collection. So why (she is probably thinking) group them all together in a static location, as if they all had equal weight?
If you scatter the CDs around the house randomly, then over time the most favored ones will naturally gravitate to your usual resting places, where they will always be at hand. Then the time saved on searches can be spent more profitably playing "Where's the baby?" and "Horsie" and other important activities.
Posted by: jamie r. at March 22, 2006 09:35 AM
Congratulations!! I got all the tools you need, and you can borrow them... as long as you come to Oregon first and help me with my kitchen renovation! (Oh, and a shameless plug--I got my tub refinished on Monday, and it looks soooo good!)
Posted by: leigh at March 22, 2006 10:53 AM
Congrats!!!
Posted by: steve at March 22, 2006 09:14 PM
Wow, new house and baby sleeping! Congratulations!
Posted by: Susanne Hinson-Rieger at March 29, 2006 12:29 AM